Student Interns

Grace Boileau is a junior at the University of Illinois, who majors in food science and minors in chemistry. Grace started at the FSHN PPP and IBRL PP in 2021. [...]

Mason Brockett is a freshman at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who is pursuing his degree in Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications with a concentration in Agricultural Education. Mason has [...]

Savannah Burkhalter is a junior at the University Of Illinois, majoring in food science. Savannah started at the FSHN PPP and IBRL PP in 2021. As someone who has worked [...]

Vansh Chaudhary is a junior at the University of Illinois majoring in Food Science and Human nutrition with a concentration in food science. He is looking forward to work in [...]

Dylan Hendrixson is a second-year undergraduate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, majoring in chemical engineering. Dylan started working at the IBRL PP in the fall of 2021. Since joining [...]

Rin Kishimoto is a junior at University of Illinois, majoring in food science. She started working at FSHN PPP and IBRL PP in the winter of 2021. She enjoys cooking and [...]


Yanlin Lei is a Ph.D. student in the Food Science and Human Nutrition department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She has a bachelor’s degree in Food Science and Engineering [...]

Chris Li is a junior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, majoring in Specialized Chemistry with a minor in communications. Chris has experience with lab-scale biodiesel production and would like [...]

Graham Moran is a junior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who is majoring in Chemistry Science and Letters. For Graham’s future career goals he wants to pursue a teaching [...]

Pattanich “Irene” Siludom is a senior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Food Science and Human Nutrition. She has over two years of research [...]

Jacqueline is a sophomore at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who is majoring in Food Science and minoring in Business. Jacqueline started her FSHN Pilot Processing Plant during Spring 2022. [...]


Charlotte Steuby is a sophomore at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign pursuing a degree in food science. In January of 2022, she began working at IBRL as a student intern. [...]

Celine Widyantara is a sophomore who majors in food science at the University of Illinois. Celine started at the IBRL PP in November 2021 and FSHN PPP in January 2022. By doing so, [...]

Yimeng (Delores) Zeng is a senior majoring in Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Urbana-Champaign. After researching in the Meat Lab and Sensory Evaluation Lab for one [...]

Nidhi Jaiswal is a Graduate Student of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who is pursuing her degree in Food Science and Human Nutrition with a concentration in Food Science. Nidhi [...]


Wenxi “Vince” Yang joined IBRL in August 2020. He is a PhD student in Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working in Dr. Keith [...]

Xinhe “Michael” Huang is a third year Ph.D. student working in Dr. Cadwallader’s group. He graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a B.S. in chemistry. His research is [...]